The way you offset your income is through the tax strategies available to real estate investors, which include depreciation, car expenses, clothing, cellphone, meals, computer, Internet, home office, travel, etc.

Meals may or may not be provided.

If people made 10 dollars an hour before and the sub sandwich eating out was 15 dollars for 2 people and now you make 14 dollars an hour but that sub sandwich meal for 2 is 30 plus dollars you didn't go forward you went backwards.

There were many frugal years, no social life unless she could paint or drywall, junker cars & a company overtime meal diet of KFC etc.

If you provide additional services to tenants, such as cleaning, security and meals, you may be carrying on a business.

I'll try to go out and have a nice meal this weekend in celebration.

Any other reading suggestions and the order in which to read them would be greatly appreciated.Would love to meet with anyone in the area for coffee/tea or even a meal. 

Just maybe finished 1 bedroom apartments and providing 2 meals per day as well as possibly laundry service.  

After spending the next two weeks watching every real estate video I could find, I was determined to purchase my first rental property.By this time, I had been eating free meals at the school dining hall, saving my ROTC stipends, and working three part-time jobs (campus taxi driver at night, finance internship two days per week, and ice hockey referee on weekend mornings).

you're not responsible for inconvenience expenses to the tenant for something not due to your negligence - and I would consider having to use a hot plate or a microwave in the living room for a week an inconvenience, not an "unlivable" situation - if he went to stay in a hotel, is he going to be cooking 4 star meals there?